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California banning violent playthings 6ROSWWDOD BULLETIN" I ANC.F.I.ES (AP)-Toy bombs, grenades and torture instruments are being removed from shelves of California stores to beat the July 1 dead- lino of a new state law aimed at reducing violent influences on playtime. The law, passed during the current session of the legislature, prohibits manufacture or sale of such toys and provides for fines up to $300. It is believed the first of its kind in the country. Most major merchants checked disclaimed handling these toys in any great volume or said the demand for them had dwindled because of tiwar feeling and alarm increasing crime. The law exempts "any model of an aircraft, ship, motor ve an- over hide, railroad engine, car or rocketship or other spacecraft" from the ban.

It does not apply to toy guns. Los Angeles County Dist. Ally. Joseph Busch said he was notifying, city attorneys, law- enforcement officers, manufacturers, wholesale distributors and major retailers that the law becomes effective July 1. Ho said his office's unit which makes inspections for unsafe toys will check for banned items.

The Toy Manufacturers of America, industry organization based in New York, says the California law is the only one of its kind in the country. "I think it (the law) will have very little effect on the industry," said association President Walter Ross. "There was a scries of vampire and torture model kits on the market a few years ago. 1 believe that sort of thing inspired the Burton Act. The growing unpopularity of the Vietnam war did much to decrease the popularity of war- type toys." Mattel, of suburban Hawthorne, the biggest U.S.

toy manufacturer, said it wasn't manufacturing the type of toys banned. "Most of our 'monster' sales have slowed down," said a spokesman for the Los Angeles branch of F.A.O. Schwarz, famed toy store on New York's Fifth Avenue, "War toys are not carried." Relic preservation tough Mexican job Id like to get a pair of the new style shoes with the chunky 3-inch-high heels before they catch on with all the toll Mothers' Little Helpers from Texas Furniture Co. Babylond headquarters for Brownwood and Central Texas is now, as always, Texas Furniture. SAFE-T-SEAT Deep loam padded seal and headrest protector.

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$27 9S "Better Things for Better Living TEXAS FURNITURE COMPANY By VICENTE MORALES Associated Press WHtef MEXICO CITY (AP) Preservation of evidence of Mexico's great past has become a doubly difficult task due to the frequent loss of important relics of cultures that lived here up to 22,000 years ago. The government recently passed a law to try to reduce these losses and ordered a substantial increase in the budget for investigation, conservation and restoration of the pre-Colombian legacy. But Mexican authorities doubt that tine lovers of archaeology and dealers in contraband of the artifacts will abandon the gold mine of pieces buried in Mexican soil. Officials of the Institute of Anthropology and History say Misconceptions plagued summit By KENNETH J. FREED Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and the Soviet Union suffered from misconceptions during the Moscow summit over how far each was willing to go to reach a major trade agreement, according to presidential aide Peter Flanigan.

The Soviets thought the United States would go further for a long-range grain sale than it was willing to go, Flanigan said. "The second misconception, on our part," was that the Russians would do more to settle their World War II lend-lease debt than turned out to be the case," he added. Klanigan, who heads President Nixon's Special Committee on International Economic Matters, briefed newsmen Friday on the trade aspects of the Moscow summit but stipulated that his remarks Sailors set big reunion MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) Two Ohio men who were Navy buddies in World Warr II have organized a reunion with 26 of their shipmates in Plymouth, England, next week. To complete the reunion, their old ship will steam into Plymouth harbor to take them aboard. "We'll have a cocktail party, tour the ship and take our wives to the places where we stood duty." said Tunis North, 49, of Mansfield.

He set up this year's reunion in Plymouth Monday with fellow Ohioan Sam Frcedman, 50, Canton, Plymouth was one of the ports of call for the ship, the USS Ancon, during the war, North said. A converted luxury liner, the ship was later turned over to the state of Maine's Maritime Commission for use as a training ship for its maritime academy. The ship's name is now "The State of Maine." But other than that and a bright coat of white paint instead of the dirty wartime camouflage colors, the ship should be the same as before, North said. It served for a while as the Atlantic fleet's flagship and communications center. The ship also made history by being the first Allied ship to enter Tokyo Bay, he said, Some 354 members of the ship's crew are still alive, North said, could not be reported until Saturday night.

In spite of the problems faced in Moscow last month, Flanigan said a general trade agreement will be signed this year. However, he cautioned that the several problems that complicated the situation in Moscow still are under negotiation and will take several months to work out. The differences between the two superpowers over trade were serious enough that it was never really thought an accord was reachable in Moscow, Flanigan said. He added that prospects are not much better when a joint committee of American and Russian officials open the new round of talks in the Soviet capital in mid-July. "There was a suggestion we fell short of our goal by only agreeing to set up the joint commission," Flanigan said of the Moscow summit talks.

"The fact of the matter is," he stated, "there was only a modest amount of discussion on thu commercial side" as compared to the strategic arms- control agreement and such accords as those concerning the rules of travel at sea and space. As for the meeting next month, Flanigan said the U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson will deal with the general situation, particularly the thorny problem that is at the center of the U.S.-Soviet trade World War II lend- Icase debt. Football ticket list causes suit LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

(AP)A hearing has been set for July by circuit Court. Judge Warren Woods on a suit filed by a group ot students against the University of Arkansas. The students claim that university officials have refused them access to a list of persons who receive free football tickets to University of Arkansas football games, which the students claim is a violation of the state's Freedom of Information Act. In their suit, the students claimed that the university discriminates against the university's Little Rock campus in its distribution of tickets. The suit said that students must pay full price for the tickets and sit in the end zones while corporations and news media receive free tickets in other areas of the stadium.

Judge Woods set the hearing date Friday. more than 11,000 archaeological tones, containing ruins of civ- ilisations of Aztecs, Mayas arid many other Indian tribes, ancestors of today's Mexicans, are registered in this country. They say the vastness of the remains places Mexico fifth in archaeological importance in the world, surpassing even Italy. But the wealth of past cultures has created its share of problems. Only 2,600 of the zones have been studied so far.

Just placing a guard at each site has been a difficult task for the government. Until 1971 the anthropology and history budget was less than $3 million dollars but President Luis Echeverria earlier this week authorized an increase for the last half of this year because 80 per cent of the budget had gone for the salaries of the 4,000 employes of the Institute, the only organization charged with preserving Mexico's past. The lack of adequate protection at many of the archaeological sites often facilities robbery of the historic treasures. In 1968, Ignacio Ek, a Mayan peasant farmer, saw several individuals drive a truck into the Yucatan jungle and take apart a small pyramid of beautiful ancient masks. Ek told a rural teacher about the incident.

Authorities were notified and later found that the ruins, those of Kohnlinch, Quintana Roo, were among the most important recent discoveries in Spassky praises Fischer's'gift' BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Boris Spassky, the Soviet chess grandmaster who meets American Bobby Fischer next month in the world championships, says that the match has brought him a new apartment. "My whole family consider that we owe Bobby a load of vodka," Spassky was quoted in a copyright interview with the Belgrade weekly, Nin. Mexico. Those who make a business of selling the archaeological treasures also were responsible for the discovery of evidence of the massacre of Indians by the Spanish in Choiulay'Puebla, in 1519, a ball court in Tula and scientific evidence of, the presence of man in the Valley of Mexico 22,000 years ago, according to institute authorities. Archaeologists say the worst archaeological theft occurred during the Mexican revolution In 1910, but add that the undercover work of private collectors and unscrupulous contraband dealers may surpass it.

Important pieces of pre-Colombian art are in United States and European museums, but institute officials 'say hone of them was donated by the Mexican government. They allege that all left the country illegally. Mexican officials say they are trying to recover some of the pieces by exchanging them for other artifacts that are not fundamental to the study of Mexico's history. "If I said that some of the storerooms held a million pieces perhaps the figure would be too low," one institute official said. During excavations for the Mexico City subway system, idols, domestic utensils and other ceramic pieces were found by the thousands.

The digs even revealed complete pyramids. Investigators say they consider each piece important even though it may be similar to others. In each one there is a message, they say. By putting the messages together, Mexico hopes to reconstruct its past to determine more precisely the road it should take for a better future. The government now plans to take the evidence of Mexico's cultural past to its people by establishing museums in elementary and junior high 'taking the artifacts out of the warehouses, institute offidaisVjiay, they will make! citizens aware of the need to preserve evidence of their past.

Another war brings second church split MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) The Southern Presbyterian Church, which split with the Northern Presbyterians over slavery during the Civil War, found itself deeply divided over another war in its just-ended annual conference. Commissioners to the 112th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church U.S. ended a six-day annual conference at Montreal in western North Carolina Friday, but not before a bitter and emotional debate over the Vietnam war. The conference finally adopted a resolution expressing concern over the war, It was a watered-down version of strong antiwar proposals.

The commissioners were no closer on the issue of merging with the Northern Presbyterians, But the conference did. beat back attempts by conservative commissioners to force withdrawal of the church from the World Council of Churches, the National Council of Churches and the Consultation on Church Union (COCU), COCU is an effort to unite eight Protestant denominations into one large church, In other action during the conference the Southern Presbyterians adopted a $9.3 million 1973 budget for its churches in Come to the GRAND OPENING of the newly expanded THOMAS TV HOBBY TOWN We've expanded tq take in the old Central Boot location JOH03N, Center Downtown Ph.646-8722 Qyr hobby dept, has been enlarged to include a new YoM-Fraroe-lt" I picture framing craft, Hobby Town is still for Motorola I and stereo's, knitting supplies, needlework plaster dtcgratpr ploqum, cor end airplane kits, Come and see what all we've dont 10 southern and border states, voted its hopes for the speedy recovery of Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and restructured top administrative agencies and boards for the first time since 1949, Ecology to be studied for agency CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. space agency has awarded grants to two Florida colleges to study ways to protect the environment and wildlife when construction begins on facilities for the space shuttle. A major goal is to save the abundant bird, animal and aquatic populations which inhabit the Kennedy Space Center.

The center borders the Atlantic Ocean and is flanked on two sides by the Indian and Banana rivers. The $90,000 grants went to Florida Technical University of Orlando and Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. A third graduate school will be added within three or four years, said William Lee, bioscience staff officer at the center. The space shuttle, a reflyable rocket plane, is a major new program approved for the space center and many new facilities will be required, including a. runway where the craft will land like an air.

plane on return to earth. Unmanned flights of the shuttle are scheduled to start in 1976 with manned missions to begin in 1978. As many as 50 launches a year are anticipated in the-1980s. The Florida, Technological University group will troto on the identification ana assessment of the biology of the myriads of birds, mills and squatiPi life for yyhjch the region is noted,.